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> Was Rosa Parks anybody important when she did what she did?

These are social issues. There are no monetary interests at work.

In the (very, very) long run nobody really cares who you marry.

These are just the little things given to us to fight over so we don't notice what's really going on (i.e 3 wars, but still no healthcare? Come on.)



>These are social issues. There are no monetary interests at work.

From slavery and Jim Crow laws, to seggregation and redlining, there were tons of monetary interests at keeping the blacks down.




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